June 20, 201412 yr in my cause its sickbeard causing it when it moves contents from the holding/download ssd into the array i have had to move back to the previous beta for now Myk
June 20, 201412 yr Author in my cause its sickbeard causing it when it moves contents from the holding/download ssd into the array i have had to move back to the previous beta for now Myk sickbeard isn't actually the cause. its the network driver for Xen. it just so happens to occur when you're using sickbeard because the network driver is heavily used then. this can happen with any VM under Xen that is using a PV network stack. converting from PV mode to HVM mode could eliminate this problem I believe. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
June 20, 201412 yr Yeah I'm having some problems in 5b with transmission myself if I allow too many connections. So it isn't just a new b6 think, though maybe worse to hear it told. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk
June 20, 201412 yr Author Yeah I'm having some problems in 5b with transmission myself if I allow too many connections. So it isn't just a new b6 think, though maybe worse to hear it told. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk Did you mean beta 5a? You said 5b above...
June 22, 201412 yr Well, my Windows 7 VM has been crashing. It may run for a full day or so and other times crash within an hour of booting up. Here are 2 syslogs, the first it ran for quite a while and the 2nd one it only ran for an hour or so. This VM runs Media Browser 3 server and that is its only function. I think tomorrow I will try to get this VM running under KVM and give that a shot. I haven't heard any feedback on users trying KVM yet. 2Syslogs.zip
June 25, 201412 yr Rebuilt my XEN win 8.1 VM from scratch and have not received another crash related to the network. I have not installed any GPLPV drivers
June 25, 201412 yr Well, my Windows 7 VM has been crashing. It may run for a full day or so and other times crash within an hour of booting up. Here are 2 syslogs, the first it ran for quite a while and the 2nd one it only ran for an hour or so. This VM runs Media Browser 3 server and that is its only function. I think tomorrow I will try to get this VM running under KVM and give that a shot. I haven't heard any feedback on users trying KVM yet. KVM works flawless both on W8.1 and Linux. Also WOL works with suspend/resume VM. And the 9p file system is really cool! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2
July 3, 201412 yr I got my first Xen based VM running today. Very easy. Two thing I've found which may be related to beta 6. [Edit] This is with the VM shutdown as well. 1 All the cpu cores are now running at full speed even when nothing is being done. On beta 5a they normally ran as slow as possible. Usually about 700MHz 2 The VM doesn't appear under the Xen tab in extensions. This is now fixed. Output from xl list root@Tower:/mnt/cache/VM/XP# xl list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 12678 8 r----- 4355.1 WindowsXP 7 3071 4 ------ 2397.6 root@Tower:/mnt/cache/VM/XP# My VM config file. name="WindowsXP" #kernel = 'hvmloader' builder="hvm" vcpus=4 memory=3072 disk = ['file:/mnt/cache/VM/XP/XP.img,hda,w' , 'file:/mnt/cache/VM//XP/XP.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'] # Every MAC Address has to start with 00:16:3e the rest you can customize. vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:01:01:02,bridge=br0' ] # boot=[c|d|n] # Selects the emulated virtual device to boot from. Options are hard disk (c), cd-rom (d) or network/PXE (n). # Multiple options can be given and will be attempted in the order they are given. e.g. to boot from cd-rom but fallback to the hard disk you can give dc. The default is cd. boot="dc" acpi = '1' apic = '1' viridian = '1' xen_platform_pci='1' sdl = '0' vnc = '1' vnclisten = '0.0.0.0' vncpasswd = '' usb = '1' usbdevice = 'tablet' on_poweroff="destroy" on_reboot="restart" on_crash="destroy" # Enable Xen VGA Passthrough gfx_passthru=1 # VGA Passthrough Palit NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA card. pci = [ '01:00.0','00:1b.0' ] # PCI Passthrough Intel HD Audio Controller. #pci = [ '00:1b.0' ] # PCI Passthrough all the USB Controllers. # pci = [ '00:1a.0','00:1a.1','00:1a.2','00:1a.7','00:1d.0','00:1d.1','00:1d.2','00:1d.7' ] Kevin.
July 20, 201411 yr Question: Is there anything new or different in beta 7 that might help a Windows VM under Xen run more stable? What about KVM? I have a windows 7 VM on Xen with beta 5a that runs for weeks without a hiccup. On beta 6 it crashes every 12 to 24 hours. Converting it to KVM is useless due to hardware changes. A fresh install of Windows 7 on KVM causes networking problems where I can never get it the VM to use a static IP address. Its like every reboot causes network discovery issues and always falls back to DHCP mode. I haven't tried much else because beta 5a works so well. I have not tried Windows 8 yet due to the amount of work required in reinstalling programs and initial setup. I will try it on the next beta though in hopes of getting a stable window 7 or 8 VM going with a static IP address. I'm not doing any hardware pass through here. Just need a stable Windows VM. Thanks.
July 21, 201411 yr I too am having Xen issues on beta 6. I had to roll back to beta 5a to keep my ubuntu VM running. Otherwise it'd freeze. At first I'd lose connectivity via LAN and I couldn't SSH into it. I could still connect via "xl console 1" but then that would crap out completely and I couldn't even access it via the console either. So I'd run "xl destroy 1" and i'd end up w/the (null) entry. Only full rebooting Unraid seemed to fix it, but that was temporary. I had to roll back to Beta 5a. I was looking forward to trying BTRFS and Docker root@Vault:~# xl list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 2048 2 r----- 2517.9 (null) 1 0 2 --p--d 1255.8
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